Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-26

sight to say how any given thing will turn
out, and he always said so, in spite Of every
| body; and there the thing was that day,
and nobody could gainsay it. And Goldmore
hands Sophia solemnly into her carriage, and
off they 90 for life and love, and the story is
told.
They come back again and settle in the
Beeches, which has lain Vacant since Mrs.
Temple gave it up. They began their mar
ried life with every promise of happiness and
with the brief sunshine of this life warm and
bright about them. May I relate one little
incidents
Exactly a month after their return home
Egerton Doolittle came in one morning and
asked to see Sophia privately: and when he
was alone with her, and the door shut, he
drew long playbill out Of his pocket>
"Look here, Sophia, he says, in voice Of
alarm, "look at this"
The bill announces that in a neighboring
city there is to be for one night only per-
formance of 1.-THE School for Scandal, with
Mr. I.anigan as Charles Surface and Mrs.
I.anigan as Lady Teazle.
u call it serious thing for you, Sophia" !"
Egerton says. IF you will take my advice
as relative I should keep Percival in the
background You will observe it is only for
one wight, and as prudential matter ! should
tt-tyep fercivar M the background: = y S'7-
Does she?
"Come here, sir" she says to her husband
after Egerton has gone "Do you see thisp
She shows him the p;aybill, and he looks
little foolish and conscious
81 want to see the Lanigan, Percy" she
says "You must take box for us both to
see the Lanigan."
You are jesting, Sophia"
"Never was more serious in my life. I
must, and will, see Mrs. Laniganm
So the abashed husband has to take abox,
and in due time they are waiting for The cur
tain to rise.
Now, which is Mrs. Lanigan" Sophia
asks, after the play has begun.
"There," Percival says, "in the satin
dress"
1.-THE blue satin dress2 Surely THAT is not
Mrs. Lanigan!" Sophia puts very impress
sive emphasis on that"
"Yes, that is she," Percival replies, with
obvious awkwardness He feels very much
ashamed of having admired her. He can see
nothing in her now at all.
"Mrs. Lanigan is not the woman with the
long train" Sophia says, resolved to disbe-
lieve him. In fact, she implies that it is quite
incredible that THAT can be Mrs Lanigan.
ayes, the woman with the long train" he
replies.
"Why, Percival, you said she was SO pretty"
@Wel, you know" Percival says, "thatwas
In Australia"
"Had she the same nose in Australia" in
quires Sophia, crushing her husband by this
sarcasm.
And hereupon Mrs. Sophia Brent sets to
work and picks the renowned Lanigan to
pieces, from her eyebrows to her toes, and
makes it as plain as Euclid to Percival that
she is not at all progressing; and Percival,
having the woman of women at his side, be-
lieves all he hears, and begins to remember
now that Mrs. Lanigan's complexion was
sometimes. little doubtful. So you see,
reader, that Sophia, with all her charms, was
only mortal woman after all, and would let
fly an arrow at a rival as swiftly as any of
her SEX But it mattered nothing to Mrs.
Lanigan, who was three times recalled. And
it mattered nothing to Sophia, who only
wanted to punish her husband, and never
loved him more tenderly than that night.
And so it really comes to this, that need not
have recorded so trivial an occurrence at all.